[HN Gopher] Amazon's New World reportedly breaking RTX 3090 grap...
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       Amazon's New World reportedly breaking RTX 3090 graphics cards
        
       Author : amlozano
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2021-07-21 21:40 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.tomsguide.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.tomsguide.com)
        
       | h2odragon wrote:
       | Next month, Nvidia will be including this code in their drivers
       | as anti-mining measure.
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       | Seriously tho I'm interested what chain of events led to this
       | possibility; it sounds like it might be something minor that some
       | makers changed from a reference design...
        
       | merb wrote:
       | a game should never be able to fry hardware. the headline should
       | be "rtx 3090 cards can be fried by playing a game".
        
         | amlozano wrote:
         | It seems to be something mostly specific to the EVGA version of
         | the card, which is a real head scratcher.
        
           | Saris wrote:
           | My first thought is this game just happens to put a lot of
           | load on the card, and EVGA has some faulty VRMs out there
           | that are burning up.
        
             | pitched wrote:
             | The RAM chips on the back of the card aren't cooled well
             | and can hit 110C regularly when mining. That can be fixed
             | by using better thermal pads for the most part though. So
             | my bet is that EVGA used a set of really bad thermal pads
             | and the RAM on the back is dying.
        
           | rasz wrote:
           | Badly implemented power limits, 5 mOhm resistors out of spec
           | and bam all of a sudden you go past 350W (or whatever it is)
           | hardware limit.
        
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